Pathankot attack: Under pressure from India, Pak arrests some suspects

Pathankot attack: Under pressure from India, Pak arrests some suspects

Islamabad: With India laying the onus on the continuation of peace talks on Pakistan's ability to act against the perpetrators of the Pathankot attack, and pressure mounting on Pakistan to act, Pakistani authorities today claimed to

India TV News Desk [ Updated: January 11, 2016 22:17 IST ]

pathankot attack under pressure to act pak arrests some suspects

Islamabad: With India laying the onus on the continuation of peace talks on Pakistan's ability to act against the perpetrators of the Pathankot attack, and pressure mounting on Pakistan to act, Pakistani authorities today claimed to have carried out a number of raids at different places in connection with the case.

The raids have also led to the arrest of some suspects, intelligence officials said today. As per the officials, the raids were carried out in Gujranwala, Jhelum and Bahawalpur districts and an unspecified number of people were arrested.

"Probe has been going to ascertain if they were involved in the attack or some of them facilitated it," they said.

The arrests led Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to order a Joint Investigation Team of IB, Inter-Services Intelligence, Military Intelligence, Federal Investigation Agency and Police to thoroughly probe the Pathankot attack links to Pakistan.

The decision to form the JIT, comprising officials from Intelligence Bureau (IB), Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI), was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Sharif recently, The Express Tribune said.